Potatoes
October - Plough or cultivate
November - Ridge up
March - Apply compound fertiliser inc. Mg
April - Cultivate, de-stone and re-ridge, plant seed tubars
May - re-ridge and apply weed killers
June - Apply blight/insecticides
July - Apply blight/insecticides
August - Apply blight/insecticides
September - Dessicate and lift
Statistics for Potatoes
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| Potatoes - area (000 hectares) |
166 | 165 | 158 | 145 | 149 | 137 | 140 | 140 | 144 | 144 | |
| Potatoes - holdings (000s) |
14.3 | 12.2 | 10.2 | 9.4 | 10.0 | ||||||
| Production area early potatoes (000 hectares) |
12 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 16 | 17 | 15 | |
| Production area maincrop (000 hectares) |
154 | 151 | 144 | 132 | 134 | 124 | 129 | 124 | 127 | 129 | |
| Yield - potatoes earlies (tonnes / hectare) |
22.6 | 12.4 | 16.4 | 18.2 | 16.8 | 14.3 | 15.7 | 12.5 | 13.3 | 15.0 | |
| Yield - potatoes maincrop (tonnes / hectare) |
41.4 | 42.8 | 46.7 | 42.9 | 45.2 | 46.4 | 43.0 | 43.1 | 46.7 | 48.0 | |
| Production volume earlies (000 tonnes) |
276 | 172 | 235 | 247 | 248 | 179 | 177 | 198 | 224 | 236 | |
| Production volume maincrop potatoes (000 tonnes) |
6359 | 6477 | 6732 | 5811 | 5997 | 5800 | 5550 | 5367 | 5921 | 6160 | |
| Prices of early potatoes (£ / tonne) |
132 | 184 | 110 | 131 | 179 | 141 | 194 | 153 | 206.8 | 148.8 | |
| Prices of maincrop potatoes (£ / tonne) |
83 | 111 | 81 | 97 | 112 | 95 | 125 | 141 | 143.8 | 113.2 | |
| Total UK production potatoes (000 tonnes) |
6636 | 6649 | 6966 | 5918 | 6246 | 5979 | 5727 | 5564 | 6145 | 6396 | |
| Total new supply potatoes to UK (000 tonnes) |
7577 | 8242 | 8334 | 7355 | 7671 | 7006 | 6532 | 6762 | 7487 | 7578 | |
| Total domestic use potatoes (000 tonnes) |
8297 | 7793 | 8393 | 7841 | 7603 | 7095 | 6911 | 6995 | 7027 | 6772 | |
| Production as % UK use (%) |
88 | 81 | 84 | 81 | 81 | 85 | 88 | 82 | 82 | 84 |
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